(emailed update from Insp Sutcliffe from Stretford’s Neighbourhood Team – passed on for information) Dear All We are working with you to identify and tackle the issues that matter to you the most. You told us drug dealing was an issue in and around the Lostock area of…

The 2010 Labour Leadership race was from the start a two-horse race. Not because of any great difference in quality between the 5 contenders, but constrained by the media narrative; which Milliband would win? Personally, I would have liked the contest to have been broadened to include the…

I’ve received the following reply from Trafford regarding the state of the road surface. Whilst acknowledging the unsatisfactory appearance of the road, the road has not yet risen to the top of the schedule. Dear Cllr CordingleyI refer to your recent inquiry concerning the surface condition of the…

My postbag is increasingly dominated by the proposal to build a biomass powerstation at Barton near to the M60. This is a major scheme and we have to be careful that we’re not allowing dioxins and black carbons to be pumped into the air. Gorse Hill is very…

Speaking at a press briefing in advance of the TUC Congress, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Next week the TUC holds its most important Congress in decades. We face government policies that will do great damage to this country. ‘Its programme of cuts, privatisation and redrawing the…

According to GMB, Trafford’s Chief Executive was paid an annualised salary of £170,000 last year, which makes her one of the lower paid chief execs in the North West. But it’s hard not to agree with the GMB’s view that the pay levels for senior directors in local…